Java Speech Development Kit: A Tutorial

The authors show how to get started developing voice-activated interfaces using the Speech for Java Development Kit.

The API

The API that is being studied is composed by three packages
that form the voice Speech for Java SDK:

package javax.speech: has the basic interfaces and
implementations for the Engine interface. It also implements the
Central class providing access to all the other functions for
creating the most important entities of the technology, the
synthesizers and recognizers. It is the basis for the remaining
packages, remembering that the recognizer and synthesizer
interfaces extend the Engine interface. This package also has
resources for managing the audio received by the Engine and, as a
last feature, its SpeechEvent class is inherited by all the other
events of the API.

package javax.speech.synthesis: has all the classes
and interfaces used for the synthesis process. It also provides the
Voice class that determines how the synthesis will take
place.

package javax.speech.recognition: the largest of
the packages, it implements the recognizing and grammar classes,
given their close relation. Also, there are the result classes that
are very important in this architecture.

The packages are presented in a jar file named ibmjs.jar and
the compilation is possible only after adding its full filesystem
pathname to the CLASSPATH system variable, as follows:

CLASSPATH = %CLASSPATH% ; .../ibmjs.jar

After that and the proper installation of the IBM ViaVoice
software, it is necessary to execute the following command:

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I have done a lot of research on the speech development architecture of java..but i am more interested in some package that might make the development of a speech to text application faster. Thanx...hope i get a reply...my emaill is mario_ramotar@yahoo.com